Security News > 2021 > April > Passwordless: More Mirage Than Reality
That's the premise behind one-time passwords, biometrics, pin codes, and other authentication methods presented as passwordless security.
While this sounds appealing on the surface, the problem is that, when you dig deeper, these passwordless solutions are still reliant on passwords.
When you consider that this secondary form of log-in is generally a password, the promise of passwordless remains elusive.
What about the IT admin who logs into the system to analyze the data? If they are using a password without a complementing solution to ensure the integrity of their credentials, then the system's security is still reliant upon password security.
These emerging invisible security strategies have some additional authentication concerns that will require passwords to remain part of authentication security for the foreseeable.
With passwords part of our lives for the foreseeable future, it's critical that organizations protect the password layer.